Salt water rod and reel



Dec. 5, 1939.

A. A. CABASSA SALT WATER ROD AND REEL Filed June 1l, 1938 f qlc/tanda? lassa,

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Patented Dec. 5, 1939 UNITED STATES rArsN'r omer;

SALT WATER ROD AND REEL Alexander A. Cabassa, Lakeland, Fla. Application June 11, 1938, Serial No. 213,172

1 claim. (ci. 43-20) i This invention relates to an improvement in on the shaft.y A flange 22 is formed on an end a combined rod and reel particularly adaptable of the sleeve 3 and is provided on its outer face for salt water fishing. with a row of ratchet teeth 23 along the periph- The invention consists in providing the handle eral edge thereof. The flange 22 and teeth 23 5 portion of the rod with an offset portion within are maintained in spaced relation with respect 5 which a reel is positioned. The axle orshaft for to the rod I by the enlarged portion 2| of the the reel is mounted Aupon the offset portion of shaft. A screw I has screw-threaded engagethe rod so that the horizontal axis of the reel ment with the -end of the shaft 2 for retaining is in alinement with the longitudinal axis of the sleeve thereon.

the rod. The reel is loosely journaled upon the Mounted to rotate on the sleeve 3 is a spool 10 axle and is provided with a ratchet which co- 5, which is of the usual construction comprising operates with a spring actuated pawl carried by a hub 26 and side flanges or disks 25. The inner the offset portion of the rod which allows the face of the flange 22 of the sleeve 3 engages with reel to be rotated clockwise by a handle mounted a suitable friction material It on disk 25 of the on the axle, yet permitting the reel to rotate spool 5. A disk flange 'I, is keyed to the sleeve 3 l5 freely counterclockwise. by a Woodruff key I5, and engages friction ma- The invention consists of certain novel featerial I 4 on the other disk 25 of the spool 5'for tures of construction and combinations of parts retaining the spool on the sleeve.

which will be hereinafter described and pointed The free end of the sleeve is screw-threaded out in the appended claim: at 2l for the reception of a Wing nut 8, which 20 In the accompanying drawing: may be adjusted on the sleeve for braking the Fig. 1 is a view in top plan showing the reel rotation of the spool on the sleeve in accordance applied to the handle portion of therod; with the pressure created in bringing the fric- Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation; tion material I4 of the disks 25 in contact with Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal sectional View the anges 'I and 22. 25 of the rod and reel; The sleeve 3 is provided with a squared por- Figure 4 is a detail sectional view online 4-4 tion 28 for the reception of a crank 9, and a of Figure 3; and Figure 5 is a transverse vertical cap nut I0 is screwed onto the end of the sleeve sectional view on line 5--5 of Figure 3. for fastening the crank thereto.

3 The handle portion I of the rod or pole is pro- A tubular member II extends through the 30 vided at a suitable distance from the butt end portion 20' of the rod I in parallel relation to thereof with a lateral offset or recessed portion the shaft 2, and is provided with a pawl I2 which of a size sufficient to encompass at least three reciprocates within the tubular memben The' sides of a reel. In the present construction, the pawl is urged into engagement with the teeth ofv offset portion 20 is formed of a metal tube, which the ratchet 23 by means of a spring I3 confined is bent between its ends to produce a substanwithin the tubular member II, for limiting the 35 tially U-shaped recessed portion which lies at rotation of the sleeve only, in a clockwise direcright angles to the end portions. The end portion upon the turning of the crank 9. tions are adapted to telescope with other sections A housing I8 is carried by the portion 2t of 40 of a rod or pole in providing a complete rod or the rod I and extends over the flange 22 for en- 40 pole. closing the ratchet 23 and pawl I2.

Connected to the central portion 20 of the Fromthe foregoing it will be apparent that offset portion 20, which extends parallel to the the spool 5 of the reel is capable of free rotaends thereof, is an axle or shaft 2. The shaft 2 tion in a clockwise and counter-clockwise direcis provided with an enlarged cylindrical portion tion, and the freedom of its movement is re- 2I adjacent one end thereof which engages the stricted by the tension or pressure imposed on 45 central portion of the offset, and the end of the the disks 25 thereof and the friction material shaft extending through the central portion is I4 by the flanges 'I and 22 of the sleeve 3, as the attached thereto by a nut I5 screwed onto the brake or wing nut 8 is screwed along the sleeve end of the shaft. f 3. Therefore the line may be payed out in ac- 50 A sleeve 3 is mounted on the shaft 2, and is cordance with the tension or pressure that is provided with a stepped bore to conform to the applied by the brake or nut 8. However, when contour of the shaft, so that one portion of the it is desired to reel in the line, the crank 9 is bore receives the enlarged portion 2I of the shaft turned thereby causing the sleeve 3 to be roto limit the longitudinal movement of the sleeve tated, and rotation Will be imparted to the spool 55 and 22 of the sleeve into engagement With the disks 25 of the spool.

In reeling in a line, and particularly in catching game sh, it is difficult to keep the rod or polefrom twisting or turning in the hand of thev operator, and to overcome this objection a lateral extension Il is formed on the rod I in ad`v Vance of the reel and offset portion which when grasped by the left hand of the operator per-- mits the holding of the rod or pole rigid during izo the reeling operation and at the same time permits the operator to manipulate the rod to suit the demands. f 1

By providing the extension or hand hold `I'l and the offset portion in the rod l a more perfectly balanced rod is obtained, asthereel is positioned With its axle lying in the longitudinal axis of the rod thereby greatly eliminating the possibility of the rod totwist in the hand, and with the `hand hold l1: beyond the reel additional provision is afforded in overcoming the objection common with combined rods and reels of this character.

I claim: l The combination of a fishing rod having an loffset recessed portion adjacent one end thereof,` a shaft carried by said oset portion, a sleeve journalled on said shaft, Aa reel spool freely rotatable on said sleeve, flanges on said sleeve for engaging said spool, meanson saidv sleeve for adjusting the position of said flanges Withrespect to said spool for governing the rotation of the spool on the sleeve, means on said sleeve for rotating the sleeve and spool in a clockwise direction," ratchet teeth on one of the anges of the sleeve, a pawl mounted on the rod for engaging the teeth ofthe ange for'preventing the flange and sleeve from rotating in a counterclockwise direction, and means for locking the sleeve on the shaft against longitudinalmovement.

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